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THE MASSIVE STUDENTS LEARNATHON OF INDIA
For Students of Universities, Engineering Colleges, Arts & Science Colleges of India
Learnathon 2020 Student Guide
Dear Student,
Greetings from ICT Academy.
ICT Academy appreciates your interest in self-learning and keeping yourself updated in this competitive world.
ICT Academy in association with various industry partners has launched a new initiative “New India Learnathon – 2020” with the aim of helping the students to build their skills online.
We are happy to share the Learnathon 2020 Student Guide which will help you step by step in successfully completing online learning journey.
Kindly follow each of the steps as it will be helpful for us to track your learning and update you on the learnings.
At any point of time, if you are stuck in-between the process kindly write a mail with the screenshot of the same to your Program Coordinator, who will guide you to proceed further.
We wish you good luck and happy learning.
STAY HOME. STAY SAFE.
With Regards,
Team ICT Academy.
Table of Contents
S. No. Title
1 Important Guidelines
2 Automation Anywhere
3 AWS Educate
4 CISCO Networking Academy
5 MathWorks
6 Salesforce Trailhead
7 STEP - The Hindu Group
8 VMware
Important Guidelines1. Students must use the same e-mail id used to register for the New India Learnathon
2020 (www.ictacademy.in/learnathon2020) to learn all the courses in respective company portals.
2. Every Student should successfully complete minimum 10 courses out of the 13 courses listed in the guide in order to get eligible for the “New India Learnathon 2020 Certificate of Completion”.
3. You can learn the courses in any order as you wish to learn.
4. Based on the requests from various colleges, we have enabled the learning of all 13 courses for all the registered students. We recommend every student to complete all 13 courses to obtain the full benefit of this Learnathon.
5. It is mandatory for a student to select minimum 1 course from every company providing courses in this Learnathon.
6. This guide provides step-by-step guidelines to register/log in to every company portal and to complete each of the course listed in this Learnathon.
7. Students are requested to check the “Announcements” area in the New India Learnathon 2020 web page regularly (www.ictacademy.in/learnathon2020) . All general Clarifications, notifications, common FAQs and other important updates will be updated regularly. No separate emails will be sent . It is the responsibility of student to keep track on the announcements regularly.
8. You can follow the ICT Academy official Facebook / LinkedIn / twitter / YouTube pages (ictacademyindia) to get regular updates.
9. In case of any doubt / clarification, you shall Seek Help/Support from ICT Academy Coordinator of your Institution (Your College Faculty / HOD). You can also send email to the program coordinators of your respective district/state. The Coordinator details are mentioned in the Learnathon website.
10. You must complete your Learnathon on or before 16th May 2020.
11. Every students must submit the “Students feedback and course completion details” on or before 20th May 2020. The Feedback link will be updated in the Learnathon web page and also a mail will be sent to students with the link.
12. On Successful completion of minimum 10 Courses, you can submit the Students feedback and course completion details. These details will be verified and on successful verification you become eligible Certificate of Completion e-certificate, which will be sent to your registered email id.
Automation Anywhere
RPA is for everyone. And the benefits of RPA span all industries and business units. Applying RPA forbusiness process automation is limited only by the imagination and putting bots to work has never beeneasier, with a growing marketplace of ready-made, ready-to-deploy Digital Workers available on demand,requiring no specialized IT infrastructure.
Every student has to complete all the below listed 11 modules, comprising 14 hours of learning inorder to be eligible for the BOT Aspirant badge
Skill building on RPA with Automation Anywhere
S. No. Modules Duration
1 Hello Bot: Introduction to RPA and Use Cases v11 3 hours
2 Build the digital work force 5 hours
3 Storing and Manipulating Data: How to Automate Database-related Processes 30 mins
4 Automating Excel Operations: Methods to Work with Excel Workbooks 30 mins
5 Working with PDF Documents: Methods to Automate PDF-Related Processes 30 mins
6 Automating Structured Data: How to Work with XML Streams 30 mins
7 Automating String Operations: Methods to Manipulate and Extract Strings 30 mins
8 Communicating with Email Servers: Methods to Automate Email Messages 30 mins
9 Communicating with Emulators: How to Automate Terminal Applications 30 mins
10Unleash Your Intelligent Bots: Developing Cognitive Bots, driven by AI & Machine Learning
30 mins
11 Bot Story: Where Automation Meets Analytics Using Bot Insight V11.0 2 hours
Total Duration 14 hours
Instructions to initiate learning on Automation Anywhere
Step 1: You will receive a e-mail from Automation Anywhere with an activation link to your registered mail ID (sample email below)Note: Kindly check your Inbox as well as Spam folder
Step 2: Click on the link in your mail, which will redirect you to the “Login” page
Step 3: Click “Create Account”
Step 4: Fill in all the required fields and select both the check boxes
Step 5: Fill in the details and Click on “Sign Up”Note:
a) Choose Country: Indiab) Select “Student – Developer” under Business Rolesc) Choose your college name under drop downd) If your college name is not available under drop down, choose “Other” and type your college
name in “University Field” tab
Step 6: After registration, students will receive a mail with a link which can be used to login to their Automation Anywhere University account
Step 7: Login to your account and select “Access Training”
Step 8: Select the learning pathway under “My Courses” and start the learning processNote: If the learning pathway does not reflect, “Log out” and “Login” to your account again
Sample Badge on completion of the course
If you have not received a mail from Automation Anywhere
Visit https://university.automationanywhere.com/
Click “Login/Register” and follow Step 3 to Step 8
BOT Aspirant Badge
AWS Educate
The program is intended to induce self-learning and introduce basic cloud technology skills to all students.The program is organized exclusively for all institutions across India, where the students learn the modulesonline through self-instructed videos and exercises and prove their cloud learning skills.
Start your journey on Cloud with AWS Educate
S. No. Courses Duration
1 Cloud Literacy – Inventor 8 hours
2 Cloud Computing 101 9 hours
Instructions to initiate learning on AWS Educate
Step 1: You will be receiving a link from ICT Academy by 5th May 2020 to your registered mail IDNote: Kindly check your Inbox as well as Spam folderIf you have not received the mail, kindly contact your regional program coordinator
Step 2: Click on the given link in the mail and you will be redirected to below screen
Step 3: Once you enter the details, you will be receiving a mail with the activation link. Ensure to activate your account within 24hours
Step 4: After step 3, you will receive an email to setup you password and login. You can then log in and initiate the learning
Sample Badge on completion of the course
Graduation Year, ensure to enter the passing out year (future year)
Use the same email id, which was used for registration with ICT Academy
Learnathon
Enter your college name here, and select from the drop down. If your
college name does not reflect, kindly enter your correct college name
CISCO Networking Academy
Cisco Networking Academy is an IT skills and career building program for learning institutions andindividuals worldwide. This platform helps you to practice what you learn, and become an IT professional.Here are few Beginner’s program, which gives the basic understanding of the respective course category.
Build your skills today with CISCO Networking Academy
S. No. Courses Duration
1 Introduction to Packet Tracer 3 hours
2 Cybersecurity Essentials 5 hours
S. No. Courses Duration
1 Introduction to Internet of Things 3 hours
2 Entrepreneurship 5 hours
For IT Students
For Non – IT Students
Instructions to initiate learning on CISCO Networking Academy
Step 1: You will be receiving a link from ICT Academy by 5th May 2020 to your registered mail IDNote: Kindly check your Inbox as well as Spam folderIf you have not received the mail, kindly contact your regional program coordinator
Step 2: Enter the required fields and click “Submit”
Student ID is optional
Step 3: Students will receive the below mail from CISCO to registered mail ID
Step 4: Click on “Activate Account”
Step 5: On the Create Account page, enter your details and click “Register”Note: In the field “Company Name”, enter your College Name
Enter your college name here
Step 6: Once the registration process is complete, you will be redirected to the below page, enter your registered e- mail ID and click “Next”
Step 7: Enter the password you set in the next page and click “Sign In”
Step 8: After successfully signing in, fill in the required details in the next page and click “Create Account”
Step 9: After successfully creating your account you will be redirected to your page with the selected course and you can start your learning by clicking “Launch Course”
Launch your selected course
Sample certificate on completion of the course
After completing the selected course, if you are interested in taking more courses, go to Step 1 and click the link of the course
MathWorks
MATLAB offers this free course on Machine Learning and Deep Learning and provides an interactiveintroduction to practical methods on Deep Learning and Machine Learning. Here some of the topics thatwill be covered are classification workflows, importing and pre processing data and managing collectionsof image data.
Advance your skills with MATLAB
S. No. Courses Duration
1 Machine Learning Onramp 2 hours
2 Deep Learning Onramp 2 hours
Instructions to initiate learning on MathWorks
Step 1: Launch any one of the links below:
Deep Learning Onramp:https://www.mathworks.com/learn/tutorials/deep-learning-onramp.html?s_eid=PSM_23238
Machine Learning Onramp:https://www.mathworks.com/learn/tutorials/machine-learning-onramp.html?s_eid=PSM_23239
Note: You need to create MathWorks account only once.
Here I have launched the Deep Learning Onramp link.
Click on “Launch the Course”.
Step 2: Click “Create Account” in the next page that appears
Step 3: Enter the details asked for and click “Continue”
Click here
Step 4: If you are entering personal email ID. You will get a message “To use your organization’s MATLAB, enter your work or university email”.Note: If you do not have any, please click and enable the “Use this email for my MathWorks Account”.
Step 5: Click on “Continue”.
Step 6: Here you get a message asking you to sign in into your personal email ID.
Step 7: Received an email as shown in the below image. Click on “Verify your email”.
Step 8: Go back to Step 2. Enter your MathWorks registered email ID and password.Click “Sign-In”
Step 9: Launches the course as shown below.
Sample Certificate on completion of learning
After completing the selected course, if you are interested in taking more courses, go to Step 1 and click the link of the course
Salesforce
Salesforce Trailhead is a fun way to learn. Chances are, your next job will require Salesforce skills. ThisTrailmix is the initial step for the program "Become Job Ready for Developer" which will be launched byICT Academy in the month of June.
Every student has to complete all the below listed 12 modules listed in the Trailmix, comprising 11hours of learning in order to be eligible for the badge from Salesforce Trailhead
Become Job Ready for Developer
S. No. Modules Duration
1 Trailhead Basics 15 mins
2 Trailhead Playground Management 20 mins
3 Salesforce Platform Basics 50 mins
4 CRM for Lightning Experience 40 mins
5 Data Modeling 45 mins
6 Build a Lemonade Stand App 1 hour 30 mins
7 Picklist Administration 50 mins
8 Formulas & Validations 45 mins
9 Data Management 40 mins
10 Reports & Dashboards for Lightning Experience 1 hour 50 mins
11 Build a Data Model for a Recruiting App 1 hour 5 mins
12 Create Reports and Dashboards for Sales and Marketing Managers 1 hour 30 mins
Total Duration 11 hours
Instructions to initiate learning on Salesforce Trailhead
Step 1: Go to https://trailhead.salesforce.com
Step 2: Click “Sign Up”
Step 3: Sign Up using “Google”
Step 4: Complete your profile
Step 5: Ensure “Public Profile” is “On”
Ensure thisis ON
Step 6: Complete the required details
Step 7:• Fill company name/Institution Name• Role Name: Students• Relationship to Salesforce: Customer
Step 8: Click “Done”
Step 9: Your account will be created
InstitutionName
SelectStudents
India
Customer
Click here
Optional
Step 10: Update your account by clicking on “Profile”
Step 11: Copy your Trailhead URL and fill it in the Google Sheethttps://forms.gle/4gsKNLpSZC1YZb3Z9
Step 12: Once the above process in completed, click the below link and start your learning:https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/users/trailblazerconnect/trailmixes/become-job-ready-for-developer-trailmix-1
Note: It is important to make a note of your TRAILHEAD URL and enter the same in the provided Google Sheet, as only that will be used to track and verify the badges you have earned.
Sample Badge on completion of the course
Click this button to copy the Trailhead URL
Trailhead Playground Management
Picklist AdministrationReports & Dashboards for
Lightning Experience
Click here
STEP – The Hindu Group
This course develops the key communication skills namely reading, writing, listening and speaking skills aswell as grammar and vocabulary. These video lessons use contexts involving practical, real-life situationsand equip learners will skills need for day-to-day communication.
Skill up your communication with STEPATHON
S. No. Learning Modules
1 Reading
2 Writing
3 Listening
4 Speaking
5 Grammar
6 Vocabulary
Learning Duration: 10 hours
Instructions to initiate learning on STEP
Technical Requirements for desktop or laptop:
• Compatible speakers or headphones with microphone• Chrome version 52+, or Firefox version 50+, or Edge Windows 10 build 15019• Operating System – Windows7+, Ubuntu • Access to You Tube• Access to https://step.thehindu.com/• Stable internet connection with 1Mbps speed via Wi-Fi or Ethernet or 4G hotspot
Note: a) Please use only system compatible headphones as there will be issues while recording speech
questionsb) Mobile phones are not to be used for this program
Video links on how to access the course:
Desktop version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJL1qU5C4DU&feature=youtu.be
Detailed orientation video to familiarize on course structure -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58jNJJtdTA&feature=youtu.be
How to access the STEP course?
Log onto https://step.thehindu.com/ and click on LOGIN on the top right corner of the screen.
You will be receiving the License Key to your registered mail ID by 5th May
Step 1: Type your email ID or phone number and click on NEXT.
Step 2: Enter the License Key you received and click on “Sign In”
Note: You will be receiving the License Key for the program to your registered mail by 5th May
Step 3: Your home screen will look like the sample page below and click “Hello”
Step 4: Click on Account SettingsNote: Before you proceed with the course, please ensure your MIC is on. Plug your headphone and mic into the system. Click on ‘ACTIVATE MIC’
Step 5: Click on the mic icon and follow the instructions that you hear to complete the headphone and mic test.Note: You will not be able to proceed unless this step is completed. Once your mic is activated the “Activate Mic” symbol turns green.
Click here
Step 6: Click on “My Course” and then click on the welcome video. Warm up test to be taken after completing welcome video.
Troubleshooting steps:
For Desktop/Laptop users, testing via web browsers:
Headphones and mic compatibility:
• Make sure to use headsets with microphones for testing
Do not use the mobile headphones with desktop or laptops as these may not work as expected. If suitable headphones are not used, the speech questions will not appear and you will not get a score for speaking.
To check if your microphone has been set up correctly you can try the following:
• Open Google Chrome and go to www.google.com• Click on the microphone icon in the text box to enable 'Search by voice'. Try speaking into the
microphone and see if the browser is able to recognize the recording from the microphone.
Audio not recording:If there is any kind of error while recording speech, please perform the following checks:• The headphones and mic is connected properly to the device and is compatible • Has the right drivers been installed and is turned on• The settings are checked in the control panel of the laptop/desktop• Click on 'Allow', when the browser asks to make use of the microphone• The volume level is appropriate• Click on the Record button and speak loud and clear into the mic. Once finished recording, click in the
Stop button. Click on Play button to check your recording and rerecord if it is not clear
Video not loading:If the video or questions don’t load, click on the link given below the video • Keep refreshing the page • Check the internet connection and if the speed is 1Mbps .
Sample certificate on completion of the course
VMware
Businesses use virtualization to build large clouds to serve millions of people. Virtualization can be apowerful tool for anyone from public clouds to personal computers. You can use virtualization to runmultiple operating systems on a single computer or backup your computer as a virtual machine. VMware ITAcademy helps learners study cloud and virtualization.
Learning available from VMware IT Academy
S. No. Courses Duration
1 Software-Defined Storage Concepts 9 hours
2 Network Virtualization Concepts 9 hours
Instructions to initiate learning on VMware IT Academy
Step 1: Visit https://ndg.tech/ICT
Step 2: Create an account in NDG website:
Step 3: Enter the required details and click “Register”
Step 4: After registration, you will receive a verification mail to your registered mail ID. Click on verify to complete registration
Step 5: Use the below link to go to the home page of coursehttps://www.ndg.tech/ICT
Step 6: Click on the preferred course and click “Enroll”
Step 7: Click “Launch Content” on the next page
Step 8: Use the earlier set credentials to login
Step 9: Once logged-in you will see the below window
Step 10: Take the course Module by Module. Whenever course prompts you to do complete the lab switch to labs and complete the required Lab module and come back to the Content and finish
Step 11: After finishing all the content and labs you can submit request to generate the digital badge
Step 12: Enter your:• First Name• Last Name• Email ID (enter the same registered mail ID)
Step 13: Click “Submit”
Step 14: Once you submit the request you will receive the link to get the badge to your mail
Generating digital badge is mandatory for the completion of the course
This completes the ”Cloud & Virtualization Concepts” Course
Sample Badge on completion of the course
After completing the selected course, if you are interested in taking more courses, go to Step 5 and click the link of the course
In the listed 13 courses from
7 partner organizations, every
student has to complete a
minimum of 10 courses (one
course from each partner
organization) to be eligible for
the program certificate from
ICT Academy
www.ictacademy.in/learnathon2020